Carrot Cake Cupcake Green Rooibos

It really does smell like carrot cake. The flavour is a bit more mild, but I can taste some carrot cake.

With this tea, I mostly taste cinnamon and after that, vanilla. I only kind of taste carrot cake. It’s very good but it is missing something. It definitely makes me think of carrot cake, but I think if I was drinking this without knowing the flavor, I might not pick up on that.

September Sipdown Prompt – eat a second dessert day! Drink a dessert tea.

I didn’t eat a second dessert but I am having my first dessert and drinking this tea with it. That’s all the prompt really asked for, anyway!

My dessert is a huge caramel turtle candy that my son and his wife bought for me on their vacation from a chocolatier near (or in?) Charleston, SC. This tea, unsweetened and sans additions, is brilliant. I love it. Caffeine free, sugar free, delicious.

A couple of weeks ago I served this to the person who bought this tea for me and she said, “This tea is soooo good. What are we drinking?” When I told her, she said that she bought herself a tin when she bought mine and that her tea didn’t taste the same. My guess is that she was underleafing and maybe understeeping, too.

This calls for a teaspoon per six ounces of water and five minutes steep with boiling water. Sticking with that, I get a really delicious cup of tea that twins carrot cake so nicely.

This is almost a sipdown, but I doubt it will hit sipdown status because I plan to not only re-order this one but also to get the Birthday Cake flavor to have with my grandsons. One of my twin grands hosted a pretend tea party in the playroom for my daughter and myself yesterday, with multiple pours of (imaginary) tea and lots of milk added. (Don’t say cream! It is milk!) We also gnoshed on plastic cookies.

They have had one real tea party with their parents drinking Teeccino Mocha flavor which they have loved since before age 2, so I am really hoping they will grow up to be tea lovers! I am pretty sure they will love coffee.

2021 sipdown no. 123

Thanks to Cameron for another great tea!

Okay, okay, okay. This one definitely has a fresh-from-the-oven carrot cake scent. My mom makes the best carrot cake. It’s one of her famous dishes in our family, so I’ve been a bit spoiled with amazing carrot cake. All that to say that perhaps my expectations are too high for carrot cake teas.

Actually, this tea is pretty tasty. There’s a definite sweet cream cheese icing-like flavour that’s coming forward here while the tea is quite hot. There’s a cinnamon flavour mixed with subtle hints of carrot in the background as well. The cream cheese icing falls away as the tea cools. I’m quite happy with this tea overall and would definitely consider ordering it for our cupboard.

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Mastress Alita’s Sipdown Challenge (August) – “A cheap tea”

This isn’t the cheapest tea in my stash, but I just find Simpson & Vail’s teas to be ridiculously well-priced in general. Like somewhere in the $4-5 for 2 ounces range usually. And there are many of them that I personally really enjoy, and I would consider myself a somewhat picky tea drinker. I would love to see S&V get more recognition!

Anyway. This one is not my favorite of their green rooibos dessert tisanes, but it’s still very pleasant to sip on. Mild, with a soft and sweet cinnamon flavor and a touch of nutmeg. I’m not sure I get much in the way of frosting, which makes it more like a spiced muffin flavor profile IMO.

It’s nice and I enjoyed it while I had it, but probably not a reorder for me.

Kiki:

“I smell a little vanilla. Marshmallows. lots of smelling Pie, some kind of pie. Flan. Is this another banana cream pie? sips I dunno smells like, fragrant, like perfume. Is it fruity? Is it custard, like a custard thing, like vanilla? Rice pudding. heh I got no clue. What is it? Is it rice pudding? Is it custard? Is it vanilla? Cinnamon, has it got cinnamon in there? Ginger, say ginger! Gingerbread! Is that what it is — gingerbread? Ginger? Ginger? Has it got star anise in it? Is that it? Star anise? Haha.”

Carrot Cape Cupcake.

“Carrot cake cupcake? So it does have some cinnamon and some ginger. Haha. Just like carrot cake, dammit. Yeah, just like it. Son of a bitch. muffled cackles Yeah, that it. That’s good, very nice. Very natural tasting. What did you think?”

I haven’t had any yet. I’ve been typing your constant questions.

“Ohhkeh. a series of belches and giggles It’s a good digestive tea. I’d rate it an 8. I think it’s very good.”

derk:

It totally smells strongly of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Simpson and Vail nailed the aroma! The taste is smooth and less pronounced but the aftertaste retains some of that cream cheese frosting and ?sweet cinnamon? If I hadn’t known what it was I would’ve guessed churros with frosting. I wouldn’t choose to buy this since dessert teas aren’t my thing but color me impressed. Thanks, Cameron!

Hot, you can mostly just taste the spices. Once it cools a bit, you can really taste the carrot, and the spices somehow disappear so it tastes more like fresh carrots. This is an interesting one.

(sample came from the 2nd herbal traveling tea box)

I like the coconut one better. This one has a fairly nondescript creamy taste, but I’m not getting carrot cake. It’s not bad by any means and if I was placing an order, I might throw a bit in my basket to reach the free ship minimum, but it’s definitely not a must-have in my opinion. Also, I greatly prefer the Della Terra version, even though it’s seasonal and/or discontinued. Either way, nice and creamy, a vague bready flavor, I added sweetener, so it’s sweet, but other than that I’m not getting carrot cake.

I’ve had this one a while, haven’t tried it yet. It was in a thin baggie next to a cantaloupe tea, so I think the flavor got a little contaminated. Either way, I’m not sure how this is carrot cake. Green rooibos? Papaya? This is not carrot cake. I don’t think all of the ingredients were listed in the description either… there seems to be many other things there. The flavor is spicy at first from the cinnamon, but otherwise it is mild flavored and a little fruity (and I’m trying to ignore the cantaloupe, but there is still something else fruity there. Carrot isn’t a fruit. The description complains about carrot cake made with raisins, but I’m just glad carrot cake isn’t made with these ingredients. This tastes more like fruit cake! Ah well, the other two cupcake teas from S&V were much better.
Steep #1 // 1 1/2 tsp // just boiled // 5+ min steep

OK admitting that I really neglected to pay attention to steeping parameters. This might have steeped for 15 minutes or more. OOOOoooops. I’m blaming the cat – somehow this must have been the cats fault.

Not sure that this is carrot cake, but it does have some of those spices. What I am getting though is the icing – cream cheese icing. Yep spice and icing – and I like it. All the other cheesecake teas, or cake teas – I never really get the “tang” of the cheese cake – this one really has it. Fun little tea, not sure I need to keep it in my cupboard, but was a nice experience.